From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755291AbYIBXlu (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:41:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754014AbYIBXli (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:41:38 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38849 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754316AbYIBXlg (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:41:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080902.164130.156055373.davem@davemloft.net> To: rick.jones2@hp.com Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, dusanc@gmail.com, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, hancockr@shaw.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge: STP timer management range checking From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <48BD6C8E.5060704@hp.com> References: <48BB295A.6050200@vyatta.com> <20080901093827.24eec86f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48BD6C8E.5060704@hp.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Rick Jones Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:40:46 -0700 > Can one change the TCP maximum RTO to be smaller than specified in the specs? We always min-clamp the RTO at RTO calculation time in order to be compatible with BSD's coarse grained times.